LIVE TRANSMISSION: ATTENTION AND DRAWING AS TIME-BASED PERFORMANCE

INTRODUCTION TO THE ART OF MORGAN O'HARA

"I am interested in transformation by choice and I use time and my conscious awareness of my own movement through life as a way of accounting to myself for who I am." Morgan O'Hara

Introspection, the attempt to locate oneself in the world and the effort to counterbalance "the feelings of fragmentation I experience while tending to the details of every day" characterize Morgan O'Hara's art. Locating, defining and working to make oneself "whole" represent aspects of a continuing existential dilemma present in Western society. These emotions also form the basis for much of the art in Europe and America during the past forth years -- Morgan O'Hara's lifetime. As Sartre explained: "I build the universal in choosing myself." (2)

Morgan's art exteriorizes this philosophic search through means which resemble quantitative analytic methods. By appearing to be the result of a logical, rational analysis, the highly subjective, idiosyncratic rhythms of her existence seem comprehensible to us on an objective plane. continue >>